Brilliant, thanks fuzzzy ! We have this treasure basket www.heritagetreasurebaskets.co.uk/p/Baby+Large+35+Items/27/ but I didn't buy it! Haha, we're loaning it (for free) from the children's centre. When I have to give it back I'll be going down to wilkos to make one up.
It sounds like S is having roundabout the same amount of milk as C then - he has 22oz a day, 3x7oz = 21oz, so thats reassuring! When you say she dropped it - did she just not get hungry and cry for a bottle so you didn't make it, or did you make the bottle but she didn't want it, so stopped making it? He drinks all of his bottles completely, so thats why I'm torn about stopping.
There seems to be two schools of thought;
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Off the bottles and onto solid food. Pro: stop baby getting fat, at this crucial age when metabolism and digestive everything is developing. Possibly stop obesity in later life. Negative: I'm concerned it's overloading his digestive system with solid food too early, before 'nature intended' him to be on solids. Also it means that I worry if he doesn't like or eat a meal, because at least if he is still having 2x daytime bottles he gets the nutrition from that - it doesn't matter if he doesn't want to eat.
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Nothing but EBF/FF until 1, trying some food. Pros/Cons basically the opposite of above. He's a good eater, so I worry he's having too much, and is getting big. The hospital haven't been plotting him on the charts in the red book, so I don't know what centime he's on, will get the HV to do it next week. But I think he's moved from 50th-75th.
Glad to hear you're doing better Jnice - how are the night feeds/wakings?
Agree re: work in the house. I'm very lucky as DP is really appreciative of what I do and tries to help, but it does get frustrating as I know he works very hard and has a lot of responsibility blahblah. But there is nothing like the feeling when you've done nothing but tidy/clean/tidy/clean/tidy/clean for days, and then he comes home and chucks his clothes on the floor. If he does the washing up, he always conveniently "forgets" or doesn't notice the pile of pans stacked up next to the sink - he has left pans just sitting on the side rotting for days, when I've been away. If he does C's bath/bed he just leaves the dirty clothes dumped on the floor. It's really small, petty stuff, but when you have been tidying all day, and then he comes back and just expects me to clean up after him, I lose it. He once laughed at me for having a go at him for making a mess, thinking it was funny, and because I am so wonderfully passive-agressive I cried. He took it a bit more seriously then. Sometimes he even washes the pans. Thing is he doesn't have high standards, so if he were a SAHD, the place would be a mess, because he wouldn't care. He'd do the hoovering occasionally, and wash clothes, but he wouldn't bother putting clean laundry away, or hoovering properly, or doing any cleaning. He didn't clean the bathroom ONCE the whole time I was in hospital - which was 3 months!! So I cleaned it for him.
I don't expect him to do housework, just to not create more for me. I.E. pick up his clothes. Put dirty laundry in the basket.
Here endeth my rant 